St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-01-22

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ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT.
OTELOUSAS. LOUISIANA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Yarieas Sources.
AT New Haven, Conn, on the sth, Judge
Pickett fined two railroad officials for
blacklisting man.
MRS. CLEVELAND held her first public
reception Of the season at the White House
ON the Sth, which was largely attended.
A BRONZE monument erected to the
memory of King Victor Emanuel was I'M
yelled on the 9th in the Pantheon at Rome.
THE French Minister of Foreign Affairs
has ''unofficially' recommended the &C
grelia.
THE total appropriation made by the
River and Harbor bill, as reported to the
House of Representatives on the Sth, is ST.
B66,o50
IT is stated that the Russian Govern
ment has made proposals which are cal
culated to peacefully solve the Bulgarian
difficulty.
ROBERTSON was declared elected Lieu
tenant-Governor of Indiana Oh the 10TH
at Indianapolis, and wild scene followed
in the Legislature.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times contradicts the statement that an
alliance has been entered into between
Russia and Germany.
THE President has issued an executive
order directing that hereafter pensioners
residing in Montana and Wyoming be paid
from the San Francisco agency.
In the course of a violent speech in Coun-
ty Limerick on the Sth, Mr.. Cox, M. P,
declared the Duke of Saxe-W eimar was
the biggest jaclass that ever ruled in Ire
land.
THE gift of drinking fountain to STRAIT
ford-on-Avon by Mr.. George W. Childs, of
Philadelphia, is pleasantly commented
upon by the London Daily Telegraph as IAN
act of graceful munificence."
A FIRE at McKeesport, Pa, on the 10th,
totally destroyed the McKeesport Galvan-
izing works. The loss is placed at $50, 900,
,,at, FIJI Tho
works will be rebuilt at once.
JAMES EDWARD NowLIN, the perpetrator
of the horrible murder of Geo. A Goldman,
was arraigned in the Somersville (Mass.)
police court on the 7th, and pleaded not
guilty. He was committed without bail
for trial.
CONSIDERABLE comment has been occa-
stoned in Washington by published re-
ports that ''slush fund" of 81, 900, 900 has
been distributed where it would do the
most good in the interest of Pacific rail
road legislation.
A SPECIAL order to the Irish police has
been issued from Dublin Castle. request
ing the names of the editors, proprietors
and writers of all the Nationalist papers
in the country, and especially those who
are members of Parliament.
II NEVER loaned General Logan a dollar
in my life, and can not possibly conceive
how such report originated,'' said
Senator Cameron speaking Of the report
that he had cancelled note for large
sum given him by the late Senator from
Illinois.
W hn 1oct yrr1-, Of ,n,.fc 1f tod
States Supreme Court decisions, just is
sued, there appears as an appendix, the
last formal paper prepared by Chief
Justice fancy as an opinion of the conrt,
but which was not delivered by reason of
his death.
BREvET ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THOMAS |
DUNCAN died at Washington, on the Sth, |
after brief illness. He had lived for |
more than twenty years with a silver plate |
forming a portion IT his skull, which was |
fractured by cannon ball during the war
of the rebellion.
THE House committee Oh public build
ings and grounds has agreed to make an
additional allowance of $751; 900 for the
building at Terre Haute, Ind, making
total appropriation of s17s,Ooo for that
building, and increased the appropriation
for the public building at Denver, Col,
from 500, 600 to S55775, 900.
VIsCouNT Cross, Secretary of State for
India, in a speech at Ashton-U UNDERLINE
On the 10th, said that during his expert
ence in the India Office he had been grieved
to find that q bad class of English goods
was being exported, especially to China,
where Great Britain is being beaten by
Russia.